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by bmitc 1020 days ago
What even is productivity?

I think two questions are only needed: are people, teams, and organizations working on what they are supposed to be working on on the scale of weeks to months? Are they hitting acceptable milestones? And when I say milestones, I don't mean time-based ones, which are more often than not arbitrary.

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>when I say milestones, I don't mean time-based ones, which are more often than not arbitrary.

artbitrary, yes. But also what the entire business world revolves around. quarterly earning calls, monthly finances, yearly budgets. It's arbituary, but those are period they pick to determine a bunch of stuff above the product itself.